Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

HE wants you to feel HIM in any possible way you can, but you lazy bird, come on, make a step and you will feel all you got to feel.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.